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NEVYANSKIY NEVYANSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 459 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEVYANSKIY

NEVYANSK  Or NEYYANSKIY ZAVOD, a
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town of Russia, in the government of
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Perm, 57 M. by
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rail N.N.W. of
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Ekaterinburg, on the eastern slope of the Ural mountians, in the populous mountain valley of the Neyva, in a
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district very rich in iron and auriferous sands . Pop . (1881) 13,980;(1897) about 16,000, all
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Great-Russians and mostly Nonconformists, who are employed, partly at the iron-
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works, partly in various small
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industries, such as the manufacture of boxes, widely sold in
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Siberia, iron wares and boots, and partly in agriculture . The iron-works at Nevyansk are the
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oldest in the Urals, having been founded in 1699 . In 1702 Peter the Great presented them to
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Demidov, with 3,900,000 acres of
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land . Several other iron-works are situated within a short distance, the chief being Verkhne-Neyvinsk, 18 m . S.; Neyvo-Rudyansk, 8 m . S.; Petrokamensk, 32 M . N.E.; Neyvo-Shaitansk, 20 M.
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lower down the Neyva; and Neyvo-Alapayevsk, 64 m . N.E. of Nevyansk .

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